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By the UNION PUBLISHING CO. W. E. BOWERS. F. BOWERS, THE ME \ UNION. IIULING OF THE PRESIDENT It seems I hut President Cleveland has issued a rule that makes editors of newspapers ineligible for appoint- ‘ ment to official positions. Viewing the question- from the standpoint we do, we think the ruling a good one. But, as the old saying is, there is no general rule without exceptions. For instance, . during , . „ the , last , D campaign for nominating 1 residen tial candidates, it is world-widely known that the Atlanta Journal put in much first-class work in the interest of Mr. Cleveland, notwith standing ... the zeal, , vigor and ... v„n of the Atlanta Constitution and many ether leading lights of Georgia, were ardently engaged, with shoulders at the wheel, in trying to roll Mr. Hill up tbe giade and put * him upon the people of Georgia; yet we see the inflexible Journal, while the storm and tempest raged, and amid tbe madly rnsbingocean waves, until the decisive bourns ship in pride aud triumph . . boldly slemmed the foaming f • 1 6 tide, sailing above the angry billows, with her colors brightly shining and ac*ively fluttering in the passing breeze. \The motto of the Journal Democr^K «^pRN|HMrifc'iu lb The" was led. final Clevelan^^^R’oRj^ result w.^Mifely landing M*. Other eH^tfnght be Winded to which woulej legitimately fall under ENCEPTIoAo the head of THE GENERAL RULE. For instance, the editor of the African Union, old Uncle Billy ✓Bowers, who was an old line Whig, a bomb and fire proof Republican, and who, in the heat of the Cleveland and Hill campaign,often said that. if we are to have a Democratic Presi . , , dent, , , let us have , Mr. , r Cleveland, , and not Mr. Hill. He often said to his Democratic friends, “Mr. Cleveland is the best and'niost available man you have got. He has been tried, and the government was secure under his administration. Uncle Billy never asked for, nor filled but one government office, which was Supervisor of Census in 1890. In the appointment of enu merators his motto was, competence, and not political partisanship. There is much said about reforma tion in our governmental policy, but it never cun take’place until—in tbe appointment of men to office— efficiency and appropriateness have precedence over partisan political proclivities. In order that the gov ernrnent be reformed, we must have the right men in office. It is true tho editor of the Journal or the editor of the Union, may not desire or ask appointment at the hands of the President. But in case they should, how could Mr.Cleveland with propriety, ignore or “go back” on such applications ? The old saying is “to the victors belong the spoils.” Let that be so, us a general rule, but we must admit, under certain circumstances, there may be legitimate exceptions to the general rule. We believe Mr Cleveland will appoint to ollioe men wuo hold political opinions averse to b j 8 offn> We expect in the main, thut under the present administration, demo crats will be appointed to fill the government elftoes, which we look upon as being tight Our desire is, that the present administration may n% near us possible, give the country good men to control the Nation’s ulluirs. When rejoice. good meu bear rule, the people The ^ Ja&ir"* 1 / am 4 WEST B0WERSVILLE, GEORGIA, MARCH 18, 1893. THE GOOD OLD TIMES. W** often hear our farmers and others lamenting the “good old times.” Most of those doing so, little realize the condition of things in those good old days, or they would say less about them. We have before u8 a from Mr. Jno. Wingo, of Amelia, C H a gentlemen well known and highly and deservedly ‘ re8pected throughout the State , who ba8 a n his life been engaged in farming, and who, throughout the greatest part of that now long life, has ke Pt ^counts of his transac tions. Commenting on this cry for the , good old times,: he , says: „; “Upon T i 00 kiug 0Ter m y books I have come to the conclusion that the farmer and the laborer has uot had a better time for the support of himself and family than the P re8ent for sixt y five In 1867, when money was so plenti fnUhat it had but little purcha8ing va l ue , tobacco sold for from $15 to $25 per hundred pounds, wheat for from $2 to $2.25 per bushel. At the » ame t* me flour cost $16 per barrel, hacon sides 20 cents per pound At that time and with those prices I was unable t0 ffiake greater net profits than I can now. Then a reaper cost $200, an Oliver chilled plow, $16 and brown sugar was 20 cents per P 0l ? n ^- 1 he laborer then was noth in^ike ,W so well of as at present. I thin paid ., from , A $8 to $10 per month f | r )a5or which now C08ts me from $8.50 to $12.50 per month, and to day the laborer can support himself family at one-third less cost than h ‘ co lld f 1 ‘ i W' 7 ” ' * * S P eakin S of * he C0 «P lai »t as to scarcity of mvney now, Mr. yVingogaj8; ,. Th e trouble is that of those who make this com plaint have nothing to sell to get money with. I have no difficulty in getting fa fair price for everything th&t 1 haV6 l ° ^ fr ° m ^ farm ” We are & ,ad t0 have this 8tron S corroboration of the opinions we have 80 °* ten expressed upon these ques tions, and to be permitted to put them before our readers. What is nee( j e d jg enterprise, energy, business ability and . close , attention ....... to the a teachings . of modern scientific agri culture. Given these, and the farmer to day can, by reason of the great reduction in the cost of all he needs t0 buy> and witn the aid of better implements and machinery and a more systematic and scientific man agement of his farm, realize lor himself a greater net profit than at a nv time in the previous history of the world, and can have at the same time greater home comforts and more of the advantages offered by modern civilization and progress than were ever dreamed of by his forefathers, If the farmer of today was content to live as his forefathers did, and to deny himself the luxuries and com (oris which they did, he would realize wealth as quickly as the men engaged in most other callings and occupa tions who deny themselves these luxuries, but we are not of those who would wish to see the farmers adopt such a course merely for the sake of getting wealth. No man deserves better to enjoy tbe good things oflife thnn the farmer, who b* m8e If catl produce such a large share of them, and we should be sorry to see him fall back upon the penurious and self denying wuys of his ancestors; but at th* same time, there is a reasonable economy and 8e,f deuial which is to be commended ' D men, and given this, the farmer may enjoy life and save something for a rainy day. Me know whereof we speak, and can put our hands to-day upon the men who are doing this. I hey are, however, not of the cl “ 88 who are alwa y 8 0a,lin 8 out for someone oa the government to help them, but are those who remember aud 801 M P° n the sage advice of Beujatniu Franklin—“Keep thy *bop, and thy shop will keep thee.” —[Richmond (Ya.)Southern Planter. "United we Stand, Divided we Fall.”—w<i t ki»gtm. THE CREDIT SYSTEM. One of the grnatest drawbacks to successful farming in the South is the old style of doing business on tbe credit system. The practice still prevails to a very large extent of buying on a credit and settling,,^’p once a year. Aslongasthis prevails farming will be unprofitable, In the first place when the planter buys on credit, he is apt to buy more largely and use less economy than when he puts his hand into his pocket and pays for what he gets; and in the next place he pays from 25 to 50 per cent, higher prices than when he pays cash. As long as this system is pursued the planter is bound to in bondage. His growing crop is mortgaged and when it is harvested he must immediately put it on the market, be the market what it may. Thus there are three causes which operate directly and powerfully against his prosperity. It would be far better for the planter to go the bank and borrow the monev, making his needs as light as possible, rather than pay the extra prices charged by the storekeeper for a few months’ accommodation. The credit system is at the bottom of most of the ills from which soutffi ern agriculturists have suffered--for lo these many years. We areglfd to note change in the right and trust the time is not far when the cash system shall here as it does all over the Nu; (! w [Lake OharlesfLa.) Echo. TEX A S BLUE 6 RASE | rni This . grass will grow in . any 1st. , . tude. Stands the longest drouths of summer, and the severest cold weath , er does not affect it. It is easily, propagated from seed or sets. The . to ,, the seed , . from , Septem- _ , time sow is r . her until May. ... m To plant the sets, from .. September 0 until April. It roots four or live times as deep , as Kentucky.Blue Grass, therefore it stands the drouth and cold better. We have never seen it wilt, when everything was in a dying condition. And, after 40 years of trying, this is the only grass we have ever had that we could recommend as a wintei grass that would not die out in the summer. It is a good hay grass, yielding from two to four tons of first-class hay per acre each year. It grows well under shade. All kinds of stock are fond of it. Tt grows from two and a half to three feet high. It stauds the hoof as well if not better, than Bermuda, and has this advantage over Bermuda. It is green and affords fine grazing all winter. It is fine for lawns, Iron! yards and cemeteries. It is perennial, and once established lasts always, and can only be gotten rid of by plowing it up. This grass does well on all kinds of soil, from the deepest sandy to the stiffest prairie. 20,000 sets will plant an acre, and eight to ten pounds of seed Will sow an acre. Carlos Reese, Sr., & Co.. Marion, Ala. • -» jVIcElree’s Wine of Cardui and THEDFORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT are for sale by the following merchants in Frankln county: Fleming & Son, West’Bowersville S. P. Bond, ” J. L. Carson, Bold Springs. H. D. Aderhold, Oarriesville. J. R. Tucker, S. P. Rampley, J. L. LeGrand, Cromers 0. L. Mize, Henry. B. H. Burton, Iron Rock. A. U. Jones & Co., Lavonia. T. H. Lyon, Mattin W. L. Williams, Royston P',11. Bowers, 3 W. A. Royston & Co. 5 A. J. Bellamy, Walnut Hill. T. H. Hathcock, >1 Many Persona household are broken down from overwork or cares. Brown’s Iron Bitters Rebuilds the system, aids digestion, removes genuine. excess of bU* tud cum nuOuiA. list the BEET-SUGAR IN THE U. S The Cosmopolitan prints under tin title “Sugui from Sunbeams,” an "* icie on the development, the modus operand!, and the^outlook of tie beet-sugar industry in the United States, with umerous illustrations of mauufact ure. ‘•There are now in this country six of these plants; the locations being Alvarado, Watsonville and Ohip-o^fn Oalafornia, Grand Island IJopfolk, in Nebraska, and Lehi, in Utah, the last four of which were established in 1890 and 1891. All have been able thus far to cope with tne disadvantages that lie in the in the way o* solution of the agricultural problem, and the business may be said to have already a very strong foothold. “When it is considered that more than half a thousand of such facto* each costing several hundred thousand dollars, the would that be required arfuiial' sugar we consume f, it is not difficult to see that millions of dollars now sent abroad year after year would be re here, to say uothing of the labor afforded to thousands of work tneu, the advantage to a community of possessing a factory that uses raw |iiu«ri&nal whose production is a bene¬ fit to the immediate neighborhood. a,uUa8t ’ but not lea8 \ the im P rove ‘ menC general agriculture that ' ust necessarily result from the < >Vr6 M uf the ^ careful methods the culture of the sugar i We have a vast bell, with natural facilities finely adapted to this great industry: it only waits for the farm rg te ]earn t0 uge the care and gtud whioh ig nece8garv tQ make beet ing for 80gar purposes a success, ____ Perhaps, „ , after all, „ Judge T , Gresham „ . had . , , to . business . when , he an eye J refused . , a nomination for , the .. presi r deucy , on ,. the populist ....... ticket.—[Ex ri , THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. Send 50 cents to Bond & Co., 576 Rookery, Chicago, and you will re ceive, post paid, a four hundred page advanced Guide to the Exposition with elegant engravings of the Grounds and Buildings, Portraits of its leading spirits, and a map of the ffity of Chicago; Exposition all of the rules gov erning the and Exhib¬ itors, and all information which can be given out in advance of its open¬ ing. Also, other Engravings will and printed information be sent you as published, GOT BOLIDE A WEEK Buys a good Gold Watch by our Club System. Our 14-karat gold-filled cases are warranted for 20 years. Fine Elgin -or Waltham movement. Stem wind and set. Lady’s or Gent’s size. Equal to any $50 watch. To secure agents where we have none, we sell one of the Hunting Case Watches for the Club Jrice $28 and send C. O. D. by express with privilege of examination before paying for samo. Our Agent at Durham, N. C., writes: ‘‘Our jewelers how have confessed they' dont know you can furnish suqn work for the money.’’ / / Our Agent at Heath Springs, 3. C., writes: JM'Your watcues take at sight. The VKat ■titl eman who got the last watch said he examined and priced a jewteler’s ter watches in Lancaster, that were no bet¬ than yours, but the price was $45.” j One good reliablo Agent particular^! wantejd for c h place. Writp for Empire Watch Co., New York. PATENTS 1 !0»ve*ts, and Trade-M«.ks obtained, and all Pat- \, i C nt business conducted tor Moderate Fee«. o ,Ouh Office it Opposite O. S. Patent Office ; Ijand we can secure Washlngtoi. patent in less time thau those J, (remote 1 from photo., with descrip '•‘loo. Send model, drawing If paientable »r free of,, 1 ’ We advise, or not, ! i loharge. Our fee not du i till patent Patents,” is secured, i 1 A Pamphlet, “How t» Obtain with ; 1 i mat of aame in the V. J. and foreign countries , J cent free. Address, O. A.SNOW&CO. nmwwnmtvvwnmvnwW ORP. Patent officii, Washington, D. C. Terms ; 0 ns Dollar Per Tear, CL O UD A D 1 Eli RISING. An English corporation has been established for the purpose of cloud advertising;” that is to say, a pow¬ erful electric lamp casts upon the clouds, through a properly prepared screen, vast flaming letters, advising tbe public to use Jones’ shoes, or SamaoA’s hats, etc. To the mind of ffisthetic turn, there seems to be something of desecration in thus bending Nature herself to the uses of bargain and sale; but the median ical and business mind is troubled with no such scruples, hence we may shortly expect to see the skies above our large cities converted nightly into signboards. Not only on natur¬ ally cloudy nights is this to be done, but the company has devised a means of creating artificial clouds; so that there will be no intermission in the lettered suggestions upon the sky that we buy cheap shoes, or any other commodity.—[Exchange. ----- « The Austrains consume more tobacco than any other nationality or race on the globe, civilized or savage. Recent investigations by eminent statisticans gives the number of pounds consumed yeariy by each 100 inhabitants of the different European countries as follows: Spam, 110 pounds; Italy, 128; Great Britain, 138; Russia, 182; Denmark, 224; Norway, 229; and Austria, 273 An exchange says there are twenty well-built towns in Kansas without a single inhabitant to waken the echo of their deserted streets., S^ratncs has a $30,000 opera house, a large brick hotel, a $20,000 school house, and a large number of fine busing houses, yet there is nobody to even claim a place to sleep. At Fargo a $20,000 school house stands on the hill a monument to the booming craze. The following story, with a good joke on the Bishop, is told as illus trating the kiudness of heart ol Bishop Phillip Brooks. As tbe reverend doctor was goiug up the street one night he saw a little fellow at a house trying to ring the bell, which was almost out of his reach. The tall form of the great divine approached the child with a kindly, “Shall I ring it for you, my little man ?” The boy assented, but as soon as the bell responded, he turned to Dr. Brooks with the ex¬ clamation: “Now you scoot!” and rushing away, left the minister to explain the situation. ------ THE BEST BLOOD li'EMEDY. C. A. Thompson, Seymour, Ind., writes: “My sister Jennie, when she was a young girl, suffered from white swelling, which greatly impaired her general health and made her blood very impure. In the spring she was not able to do anything and could scarcely get about. More than a year ( >ago she took three bottles of Botfjtnic Blood Balm, and now Bhe is perfectly cured.” } CHEAP MEDICINES. All buy medicines, and you want them cheap—at retail at wholesale rates. Jacob’s Pharmacy, the lar¬ gest southern “cutters” of prioes. has an advertisement in this paper con¬ taining a few prices. All other ar¬ ticles are sold at similar low rates. No matter what you want that is usually kept in They a large will drug store send to them. sell it at astonishing low rates. Express charges for packages under Watch five pounds twenty-five cents. these advertisements and prices. Send for a number of things at. once. Is a word to the wise sufficient? — : m mm - The attention of our farmer readers is directed to an article else¬ where in this issue, regarding Texas Blue Grass. It seems to be the best winter grass ever introduced in this part of the country. For prices of sets, seeds, etc., address H. B. Parker, Carnesville, Ga. VOL. IX.--N0. 11. HIS DIS TINCTION. Although judges and lawyers are often capital story-tellers on social occasions, in court it seems to be generally out cf keeping to mingle fun with grave judicial matters. Now and then, however, a staid joke will pop out in the court-room and cause merriment. Some years ago in Lockport, in the Supreme court, one day when Judge Barker was presiding, ono juryman was absent from his seat, but the others’ chairs were occupied. A dog which strayed into the court room.looking for his master quietly jut$ped into the vacant place, and made himself comfortable there. Upon which the judge, addressing the Hon. A. I'. Launiug, of Buffalo, said gravely: “You see, Mr. Lanning, that the jury men's seats are now all occupied. Are you ready to proceed?” The distinguished pleader raised his glasses to his eyes, and after a brief but comprehensive survey of the jury-box, he replied as gravely as he he had been addressed: “Your honor, that fellow might do for a judge, but I should hate to trust him for a juryman.” The good natured judge joined heartily in the merry laugh that followed this sally, and proved that he could take as well as give a joke. —[Youth’s Companion. OUR COUNTRY GIRLS. A country girl alwjL i has au idea that the advantages^?* m city are not her’s-'—that she surf trs from the tack of something, jmi c doaon't ex actly knowVhat. .o c.mvoced. that the girl in the ^ity avails herself of every opportunity-to look at fine pictures, read choice bocks and cul¬ tivate her mind. Now, when she generalizes iq, this way, she is simply showiug he/self to be narrow and ignorant. The girl in the country to-day, can get exactly the same papers and books that come to the girl in the city. Her thinking hours are longer, and very often she sees more of real, sweet home life. She is apt to learn that most beautiful industry, how to be a good house¬ wife, and over the bread pan or chum she can think as great thoughts as she would over the elaborate fancy work or iu the picture gallery. She can study flowers as they grow; she can breathe the good pure air of heaven, which makes a healthy body —and that usually means a healthy soul—and she can learn whatever she wishes. Intellectually she can control herself, and she may know, in books at least, the best trained and the finest minds of the country. Here there is no danger of her learning to speak slang. Among these people virtues are loved and vices hated, and she is thrown into society which she will never regret and which will always be a credit to her. Do you know, you girls in the country, that you can smell the flowers and eather them with the glass of the florist’s window between*' us ? And the bought blossom never lias the charm possessed by that which is plucked by on’s self. If there is anybody to envy, it is the girl in the country.—[Ladies’ Home Journal. Texas Slue <§rass. This is the best winter grass known. It yields over 8 tons of nay (worth good $86 to $28 per ton) per aere, months on of av¬ erage land, besides six cra¬ zing. Once set it stays till plowedup. SETS ABE BEST TO PLANT. Prices:— From 1,000 to 5,000 sots, $1.50 $1.85 per 1,000 ; 5,000 to 80,000 15,000 sets, $1. per 1,000; 15,000 to sets, AGENTS WANTED. I desire a few good agents in Hart and Franklin counties. Sets can be plant¬ ed until April 15. Tne sooner with you order. buy the better. Send cash For any information, address Howkll B. Parker, (Jarnesville, Ga. Subscribe for the Union.